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David Mirkin (born September 18, 1955) is an American feature film and television director, writer and producer. Mirkin grew up in Philadelphia and intended to become an electrical engineer, but abandoned this career path in favor of studying film at Loyola Marymount University. After graduating, he became a stand-up comedian, and then moved into television writing. He wrote for the sitcoms ''Three's Company'', ''It's Garry Shandling's Show'' and ''The Larry Sanders Show'' and served as showrunner on the series ''Newhart''. After an unsuccessful attempt to remake the British series ''The Young Ones'', Mirkin created ''Get a Life'' in 1990. The series starred comedian Chris Elliott and ran for two seasons, despite a lack of support from many Fox network executives, who disliked the show's dark and surreal humor. He moved on to create the sketch show ''The Edge'' starring his then-partner, actress Julie Brown. Mirkin left ''The Edge'' during its run and became the executive producer and showrunner of ''The Simpsons'' for its fifth and sixth seasons. Mirkin has been cited as introducing a more surreal element to the show's humor, as shown by his first writing credit for the show, "Deep Space Homer", which sees Homer Simpson go to space as part of a NASA program to restore interest in space exploration. He won four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award for his work on ''The Simpsons''. Mirkin stood down as showrunner after season six, but produced several subsequent episodes, co-wrote ''The Simpsons Movie'' (2007) and in 2013 remains on the show as a consultant. Mirkin has also moved into feature film direction: he directed the films ''Romy and Michele's High School Reunion'' (1997) and ''Heartbreakers'' (2001). ==Early life== Mirkin was born and raised in Philadelphia and graduated from Northeast High School in 1973. His father was a computer engineer until his death in 1960.〔〔 Mirkin's older brother Gary worked as a television engineer for the Philadelphia NBC affiliate, KYW-TV, now a CBS owned-and-operated station.〔 Throughout his childhood, Mirkin had an interest in film, and explored both writing and filming.〔 Mirkin has described himself as a "nerd" and was often in trouble as a child because he was "in another world". At high school, he felt the teaching was "too slow" and was allowed by his teachers to "skip class two to three days a week." Mirkin intended to pursue a career in electrical engineering, which he saw as a more stable employment opportunity than writing or film making.〔 He took a course at Philadelphia's Drexel University which offered six months of teaching followed by a six-month internship at the National Aeronautics Federal Experimental Center. Mirkin found the experience to be monotonous and unenjoyable and chose to abandon this career path.〔〔 He decided that "making no money doing something I loved was going to be better than making a good living doing something I didn't",〔 so took "an enormous chance on show business" and moved to Los Angeles. He attended film school at Loyola Marymount University, and graduated in 1978. Mirkin lists Woody Allen and James L. Brooks as his writing inspirations and Stanley Kubrick and the work of the comedy group Monty Python as developing his "dark sense of humor." He considers Mike Nichols's film ''The Graduate'' to be what inspired him to enter directing.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Mirkin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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